Stuart Russell works in the field of artificial intelligence. He studied Physics at Oxford and Computer Science at Stanford before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. He is also a Professor of Computational Precision Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
His research contributions include algorithmic and theoretical foundations for bounded rationality, real-time decision making, inverse reinforcement learning, hierarchical planning and reinforcement learning, and the unification of probability and logic. He has developed a new monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. With Peter Norvig he is the author of the standard text in AI, used in over 1500 universities in 135 countries.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris from 2012 to 2014. He received the OBE in 2021 and delivered the BBC Reith Lectures.
Professional position
- Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Subject groups
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision
